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(23 Jul 2023)
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Madrid – 23 July 2023
1. Mid of voter casting ballot before polls close
2. Various of elections officials sorting postal votes
STORYLINE:
Polls closed Sunday and postal votes were being sorted in Spain’s general elections that could make the country the latest European Union member to swing to the political right.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called the early election after his Spanish Socialist Workers Party and its far-left partner, Unidas Podemos, took a severe beating in local and regional elections in May.

Sánchez has been Spain's head of government since 2018.

The country's 37 million eligible voters were tasked with electing 350 members to the lower house of Parliament, the Congress of Deputies, and 208 members to the Senate.

Near-final results were expected by midnight.

Most opinion polls have put the right-wing Popular Party, which won the May vote, ahead of the Socialists but likely needing the support of the extreme right Vox party to form a government.

Such a coalition would return a far-right force to the Spanish government for the first time since the country transitioned to democracy in the late 1970s following the nearly 40-year rule of dictator Francisco Franco.

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